Piotrowice-Ochojec (german: Petrowitz-Ochojetz) is a district of
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
,
Poland. It has an area of 12,08 km
2 and in 2007 had 25,110 inhabitants.
History
Piotrowice
The oldest settlement in the area of what are now the districts
Piotrowice, Podlesie and
Zarzecze was ''Uniczowy'', a village that existed in the 12th century and was first mentioned in the year 1287.
During the political upheaval caused by
Matthias Corvinus, the land around
Pszczyna was overtaken by
Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn
Casimir II of Cieszyn ( pl, Kazimierz, cs, Kazimír; – 13 December 1528) was a Duke of Cieszyn since 1477, ruler over Koźle during 1479–1509, since 1493 ruler over Wołów, over Pszczyna during 1498–1517, from 1506 over Opava, Duke of Gł ...
, who sold it in 1517 to the Hungarian
magnate
The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...
s of the
Thurzó family, forming the
Pless
Pleß or Pless may refer to:
Places
*Pleß, a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany
* Pszczyna (German: Pleß), a town in southern Poland
** Duchy of Pless, a historic territory in Silesia
* Pleß (mountain), a mounta ...
state country
State country (german: Freie Standesherrschaft; cs, stavovské panství; pl, państwo stanowe) was a unit of administrative and territorial division in the Bohemian crown lands of Silesia and Upper Lusatia, existing from 15th to 18th centuries. T ...
. In the accompanying sales document issued on 21 February 1517 the village was mentioned as ''Petrowicze Vnicziowy''.
The Kingdom of Bohemia in 1526 became part of the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
. In the
War of the Austrian Succession most of Silesia was conquered by the
Kingdom of Prussia, including the village.
Uniczowy was somewhat replaced by Piotrowice in the 17th century. It was merged with Katowice in 1939.
Ochojec
The area of Ochojec was covered with forests until the middle of the 17th century. Around 1650 a
folwark was established here by
Promnitz family, the owners of
Pless (Pszczyna). The small settlement emerged in 1770. The meaningful growth of Ochojec began after World War I.
References
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Districts of Katowice
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